NFL Releases Nationals Topics
May 1, 2008 – 6:24 am by: Nick BubbNational Tournament Lincoln Financial Group/NFL LD Debate Topic
Resolved: Limiting economic inequality ought to be a more important social goal than maximizing economic freedom.
National Tournament Public Forum Debate Topic
Resolved: US policies established after September 11, 2001 have substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the United States.
National Tournament Policy Debate Topic
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
National Tournament Storytelling Topic
Tales of Adventure
National Student Congress Legislation is available at http://www.nflonline.org/NationalTournament.
United States Extempore
1. The Bush Legacy
2. America
3. Education & Issues of Youth
4. American Politics
5. Media and American Culture
6. The Wars
7. The Environment & Science
8. Health Care
9. US Foreign Policy
10. Crime & Justice
11. US Business and American Economy
12. Homeland Security & Military Defense
13. Welfare and Social Security
International Extempore
1. Europe
2. The Middle East
3. International Economics
4. The World
5. Russia & Former Republics
6. Global Environment
7. Japan & the Koreas
8. Iraq & Afghanistan
9. China
10. India, Pakistan, and the Far East
11. Africa
12. US Foreign Policy
13. Canada, Central and South America
Extemporaneous Commentary
1. The Greening of America
2. Presidential conversations between 1860 and 1920 (What would a particular President during this time period have to say about something happening in our time? e.g. President Lincoln on “waterboarding”? Wilson on the topic “is the world safer for democracy in 2008?”
3. Names in the News
4. Africa
5. Presidential Elections “primarily”
6. The American Family
7. America’s crumbling infrastructures
8. Anniversaries by the decade, e.g. something that happened 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago whose anniversary is being celebrated in 2008
9. “Mortgaged” up to our ears
10. “We are the people” and our broken governments
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